What you need to know FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is recommending approval for T-Mobile and Sprint’s merger. Boost Mobile will be sold off as part of the deal. T-Mobile and Sprint must commit to building out 5G over the next three years.

Updated 4:01 PM ET: Per a report from Bloomberg, today’s news still isn’t enough to sway the Department of Justice in favor of approving the [Read More…]

BCE, parent company of Canada’s third-largest wireless carrier Bell Mobility, has now overcome at least one hurdle to acquiring Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS), with the majority of MTS shareholders approving the deal.

In fact, the resolution received near-unanimous approval from shareholders, says MTS:

The Arrangement Resolution was approved by 99.66% of the 43,098,172 votes cast by Shareholders present in person or represented by proxy at the special meeting of Shareholders held earlier today.

A majority of Opera Software shareholders have voted in favor of a deal that would see the company be acquired by a consortium of China-based parties. As noted by TechCrunch, the deal is worth $ 1.2 billion and will see Golden Brick, a group of companies including Qihoo 360 and Kunlun, take full control of the Norwegian internet brand and software developer.

Opera Software has been pumping out a number of new products for its software, [Read More…]

Google today announced that the company will be implementing a global content rating system for the Play Store, as well as manually reviewing submitted apps.

These are major strives forward to better protect the community against fraudulent software submitted to the Play Store and any content that may be inappropriate for certain age groups. Previously, Google relied on fully automated systems to approve apps and games submitted by developers.

Not that we ever really expected otherwise, but the shareholders of Motorola Mobility today approved the company’s merger with Google. Motorola says 99 percent of the votes were in favor of the merger, and the votes represented about 74 percent of the company’s outstanding shares as of Oct. 11.

“We are pleased and gratified by the strong support we have received from our stockholders, with more than 99 percent of the voting shares [Read More…]